We Were All Slaves: African Miners, Culture and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria
Carolyn Brown (Carolyn Brown is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey)
Series: Social History of Africa
Series Editors: Allen Isaacman and Jean Allman
- A comparative study of African mine workers in the 20th century as part of the history of mining in the British imperial world
- Describes the continuity between slave trading and forced labour recruitment in this part of West Africa
- Examines the numerous ways in which African mine workers participated in the capitalist enterprise and shaped the process of production
CONTENTS:
- African workers and European theories
- Udi district on the eve of conquest: slavery, power and resistance, circa 1909
- 'Chiefs', slaves, coercive labor and rural resistance: the contested birth of the colonial state, Udi 1909-1914
- Glimpses of an African work ethic: work, power and race at the coal face, 1914-1920
- The postwar conjuncture: agitation, urbanization and the roots of a militant tradition, 1920-1929
- The colliery on the eve of World War II: industrial elaboration and worker resistance under economic collapse, 1930-1938
- The politics of 'productivity', unionization and the war, 1938-1945
- The Iva valley massacre of 1949: trade union struggles in the cold war, 1945-1950
- Bibliography
- Appendix
Price: Paper £16.95
Publication date: May 2003
No. of Pages: 354 + xvi
Format/Size: 227 x 142
Cover: 2 colour laminated
20 Illustrations, 10 maps, Index
Published by James Currey (UK) and David Philip (South Africa)
ISBN: Paper 0 85255 634 9
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